EIDOS 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

Having experience relating to EIDOS that goes back to 2001 (before it was even called EIDOS), I have found the tool set to be fantastic for structuring complex challenges in even the largest organizations. The core tool suite has not really varied dramatically over the past 15+ years, but the usability has soared. I find EIDOS greatly complements my work in Enterprise Architecture, the value of which I often bottom line as being "Better informed decisions faster." In Enterprise Architecture (EA), one tries to better link Business Demand with Information, People, Process, and Technology Supply. EIDOS helps me ensure coherency and comprehensiveness in addressing and scoping any major business/government/non-profit transformation, especially on the business strategy/architecture side of the house up front and then with analysis of alternatives to best satisfy any chosen course of action. I have used it to support my EA work with some of the largest organizations, including the United Nations and the U.S. Federal Government, along with Ivy League universities and Fortune 10 companies. In short, EIDOS, once mastered, and it is not easy to master, to be honest, can really raise the IQ of an Enterprise. As with any complex tool environment, an investment is absolutely required to get at least a couple of people up to the expert level in the tool suite to fully benefit from it and this must be a concerted, focused effort over a reasonable period of time.

The software has supported difficult client engagements ensuring that one can deliver in their high expectations in unusually short timelines. I have applied the tools in facilitations for mainly large public organisations but also for the NGO sector. Without fail it allows capture of content in a systematic fashion and when such content (actors and factors) are connected to provide a situational view that provides clarity to context of the problem statement to both the leadership and management of such organisations. In times when the environment keeps changing and within such the industries have to continually evolve, the tools support quick updates of context and scenarios while keeping in tact outcomes from previous engagements as useful baselines. After the workshops I have found that executives and management are able to consistently communicate the knowledge gained and strategies formulated i.e. the process supports participants obtaining a deeper understanding of the situation, scenarios and selected strategies which the process forces to be very clearly articulated and evaluated. At the same time the common language and understanding gained by participants supports consistent communication crucial to execution of selected strategies.

Eidos structures strategic foresight projects. It is not super easy, but with the right guidance at the right time, is becomes a powerful tool.

The guidance, and yet the flexibility Eidos offers, make my workshops more professional and qualitatively more valuable.

Not only are our clients wowed by the ability to construct a strategy in real time, but also it helps create combinations of options that would otherwise not have been seen without the tools.

With this coherent methodological framework you'll be enabled to craft and develop scenarios and strategies. Enhancement of decision making processes with tools that enable a rigorous analysis and synthetic integration through effective visualization and efficient computation. Highly effective interaction between tools addressing endogenous factors (PESTLE) in strategic frameworks, and those enabling assessments of external drivers and trends through scenarios. Eidos also captures knowledge generated in strategic planning exercises. The highly dynamic and integrated formats, are reuseable and easily support modifications and expansions later on. Enabling effective strategic management of issues and challenges in highly volatil, uncertain, complex and ambigue environments.

EIDOS shortens long discussions and recursions based on misunderstandings, as this tool helps to clearly structure argumentations and makes thoughts re-thinkable. The visual layout makes gaps in the discussions obvious. Hence, the benefits for me where a) saving time in problem solving; b) achieving ONE joint picture of a topic without room for individual "interpretations"; c) solid documentation of discussion that can be used for further developments, even if not all participants were part of the initial phases of the process.

We have been looking into difficult and complex situations like product designs and roll out, speed optimization of our Innovation process as well as strategic investment option evaluations.

Effective & efficient strategy meetings, significant reduction of costs for strategic- and verbal reasoning, very positive team-building effects by joint Eidos sessions, good integration into the existing software landscapes of my clients (MS Office, SAP)focussed discussions, massive reduction of complexity, very satisfied customers